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Laws of seeing [electronic resource] / Wolfgang Metzger ; translated by Lothar Spillmann ... [et al.].

By: Contributor(s): Language: English Original language: German Publication details: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2006.Description: xxv, 203 p. : ill. ; 24 cmUniform titles:
  • Gesetze de Sehens. English
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 152.14 22
LOC classification:
  • BF241 .M413 2006eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Introduction to the English translation -- Preface -- Introduction: overview of the history of visual theory -- 1 Ambiguous figures in our daily environment -- 2 Visible and invisible forms -- 3 Of groups and borders -- 4 Developmental stages in shape formation -- 5 Gestalt laws serving camouflage -- 6 Brightness and spatial form -- 7 Gestalt laws in the spatial effect of perspective drawings -- 8 Form and substance of seen things- the Prägnanz tendency -- Gestalt laws in the spatial effect of brightness -- 10 Yet another important camouflage principle -- 11 The wandering moon -- 12 Laws of seeing and laws of nature.
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E-Book Taylor's Library-TU 152.14 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) e-book

Translated from the German.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction to the English translation -- Preface -- Introduction: overview of the history of visual theory -- 1 Ambiguous figures in our daily environment -- 2 Visible and invisible forms -- 3 Of groups and borders -- 4 Developmental stages in shape formation -- 5 Gestalt laws serving camouflage -- 6 Brightness and spatial form -- 7 Gestalt laws in the spatial effect of perspective drawings -- 8 Form and substance of seen things- the Prägnanz tendency -- Gestalt laws in the spatial effect of brightness -- 10 Yet another important camouflage principle -- 11 The wandering moon -- 12 Laws of seeing and laws of nature.

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Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.

Translated from the German.